In Reply to: RE: Review of Bohm's Magic Flute - long posted by Utley1 on August 4, 2016 at 12:53:41:
Hmmm- like I said, YMMV -- but I have Klemperer's Flute, which I purchased on the recommendation from someone else extolling its virtues.
There are many things that Otto did that I like a lot - to me there are none better when it comes to the Missa Solemnis, the Brahms Requiem, and Bruckner's 6th - but his recording of Flute isn't one of them, for the following reasons:
1. Many of his tempos are just too damn slow.
2. His recording is completely without dialogue, which means that the linkage between numbers, and the opportunity to create deeper characters, is simply missing, and
3. He uses women for the 3 youths, which is just wrong.
But many like this recording a lot.
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- Klemperer's Flute - TGR 14:41:29 08/04/16 (1)
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